Author Archive: Retro

Roscoe and Buster are working at a vaudeville house. When the crew attacks the strongman for bullying his assistant, the man goes out on strike so the crew puts on a show. When the strongman starts shooting from the balcony, Buster rigs a swing, picks him up, and takes him to the stage where is again subdued.

By accident, Buster and an intimidating woman end up married.

A satire of western movies. Roscoe comes into town after riding the rails. The saloon has a trap door over a pit where bodies are tossed as they are shot. A black patron is taunted and shot at. Roscoe and Buster do everything they can to keep Al from Alice.

Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe’s wife’s jewelry.

Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hideandseek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.

Roscoe’s wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaverwielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.

A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arrival of a U.S. revenue agent and his assistant. The revenuers search high and low for the secret hideaway where the mountain people prepare illegal alcohol, but end up in deep trouble that only a little movie magic can save them from.

A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.

After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.